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FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE. CROWN OFFICE, JuLr 5, 1836. MEMBER, RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT PARLIAMENT. County ofWarwick.—Southern Div;sion.—Evelyn John Shirley, of Eatington-park, in the said county of Warwick, Esq., in the room of Edward Ralph Charles Sheldon, Esq., deceased. FOREIGN OFFICE, Jura- 5, 1836. Mr. Villiers, his Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of Spain, has transmitted to Viscount Palmerston, Me Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, an official letter, of which the following is a translation, ‘vhi r t, h as b een addressed to Mr. Villiers by Senor Xavier de Isturit, Minister of State of her Catholic Majesty : (Tait NSLATION. ) " Madrid, June 9, 1836. " Sir—ln answer to the note which you were pleased to address to my predecessor on the 10th of December last, requesting that, in order to prevent the repetition of what had occurred with the Bri tish vessel Vibelia, on the occasion of her passing by night off the Castle of Tarifa, this point may be definitively settled, and that the conditions required by the Spanish Government from vessels passing at night off the above-mentioned castle may be communicated to you, with the view of due and full no tice thereof being given to the merchants of Great Bri tain, I have the honour to acquaint you that her Majesty the august Queen Regent has been pleased to command that the GoVernor of that fortress be informed that, notwithstanding the extreme vigilance to be employed by the commanders or military chief of the fortifications on the Spanish coast whenever any vessel may pass by night within cannon shot of the castle of the said fortress, if a light is hoisted in a visible part of her hull or rig ging she is not to be molested, unless her manoeuvres should give occasion for suspicion ; that if she should come within cannon shot without having made a signal in the manner pointed at, or in some similar manner, she shall be required to do so by means of three gun flashes, tired at regular intervals ; but that if, in spite of all this, she should visibly approach the shore without correspond ing by some signal, or without shortening sail, or if she should make any other suspicious maneeu►re, she will be considered suspicious, and force will be employed to repel and oblige her to go away. " Her Majesty has been pleased at the same time to com mand me to represent to you the necessity of his Britannic Majesty's Government recommending . to British navigators the expediency of their not coming at night within cannon reach of the batteries on the Spanish shore : and that should they be com pelled by hydrographical circumstances to pass close to those bat teries, especially to those of Tarifa, they ought to hoist a light, or some other equivalent signal, in. the top or in any other visible part of the vessels, in order to avoid being considered suspicious, and molested accordingly. " In making, by order of her Majesty the August Queen Re gent, this communication to you, I have the honor to repeat, &c. (Signed) " XAVIER DE ISTUILIZ. " TO the British Minister." \VAR-OFFICE, JULY 5. MEMORANDUM. The half-pay of the under-mentioned Officers has been cancelled from the sth instant, inclusive, upon their receiving a commuted allowance for their commissions : Paymaster T. Ferns, half-pay 99th Foot ; Captain H. do Forster, half-pay Brunswick Infantry. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, JOLT 4. Royal Regiment of Artillery.—Gentlemen Cadets to be Second Lieutisnants.—J. B. Dennis, vice Rowan, promoted ; D. W. Pack, vice Freese, promoted ; J. Travers, vice Cleaveland, pro moted ; Hon. G. T. Devereux , vice Murray, promoted ; R. Blackwood, vice Smith, promoted ; R. S. Allen, vice Turner, promoted; W. Swinton, vice Marriott, promoted; E. W. Rodwell, vice Hooper, promoted; S. D. Broughton, vice Elwyn, promoted; A. H. Graham, vice Wright, promoted, June l 8; First Lieutenant W. J. Stokes to be Second Captain, vice J. W. Smith, retired on half-pay; Second Lieutenant T. Wilkins to be First Lieutenant, vice Stokes, June2,9_;Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet-Colonel Sir Alexander Dickson, K.C.8., to be Co lonel, vice Forster, deceased ; Capt ain and Brevet-Major Thomas Gore Browne to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Dickson; Second Captain B. Willis to be Captain, vice Browne ; First Lieut. C. B. Symons to be Second Captain, vice Willis ; Second Lieut. W. T. Crawford to be First Lieutenant, vice Symons, July 1. WHITEHALL, JULY 4. The King has been pleased to present the Rev. J. Haldane to the church and parish of Kingoldrum, in the presbytery of Meigle and county of Forfar, vacant by the death of the Rev. W. Haldane. Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Fife. The Right Hon. William Adam to be Deputy Lieutenant, June 18. Fifeshire Yeomanry Cavalry.—J. D. Lyon Campbell, Gent., to be Cornet, June 25. DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY. ISAAC ARCHER. tailor, Regent-circus, Piccadilly. RICHARD FLEMING, lodging-house-keeper, Pembroke place, Vauxhall Bridge-road. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. JOHN AYLESBURY WILLIAMS, dealer, Filten, Glou cestershire. BANKRUPTS. JOHN DEELEY, miller, Battles-bridge Mill, Rawreth, Essex, to surrender, July 15, at eleven, and August 16, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Abbott, official assignee ; Stevens, Wood, Wilkinson, and Satchel], Little St. Thomas Apostle. THOMAS PROSSER, builder, Bedwardine, Worcester, Julx 13 and August 16, at twelve, at the Hop Market Inn, Worcester. H. Bedford, Calthorpe-street, London ; Bedford and Pidcock, Worcester. . . . WILLIAM WHITE, cabinet-maker, Birmingham, Warwick, July 11, and August 16, at eleven, at Dee's Royal Hotel, Birming ham. Austen and Hobson, Gray's Inn-lane, London ; Reece, Birmingham. EDWARD TYLER COLEMAN, wine and spirit merchant, Marylebone, July 26, and Aug. 16, at ten, at the Red Lion Inn, Leominster. Smith, Chancery-lane ; Hammond, Leominster. HARRIET GIMSON, straw-hat dealer, Leicester, July 18, at eleven, and Aug. 16, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Gibson, Basinglfall-street, Official Assignee ; Brown, Marten, and Thomas, Mincing-lane, London. JACOB MEYER, warehouseman, Hounsditch, July 12 and Aug. 16, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Alsager, King's Arms-buildings, Cornhill, Official Assignee ; Hutchison, Crown court, Threadneedle-street. GEORGE WILSON, spirit-dealer, Hexham, Northumberland, Juiv 27, at eleven, and Aug. 16, at one, at the Bankrupt Corn rnis'sion-Room, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Brooksbank and Farn, Gray',B Inn-square, London; VIBrDEN DS own, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. DI. _ At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. C. Kin‘der, coach maker, Little James-street, Gray's Inn-lane, July 26, at twelve—W. and T. Bartlett, canvas manufacturers, Reading, Berkshire, July 26, at one—G. Fowler, rope maker, Grosvenor-place, Commercial-road, July 28, at twelve—T. Bromedge, clothier, Stone Mill, Gloucestershire, July 28, at one— S. Hamilton, stationer, Newman-street, Oxford-street, July 28, at one—J. H. Bielefeld, toyman, St. Martin's-lane, July 26, at twelve—J. Williams, linen draper, High-street, Islington, July 27, at twelve—J. Taylor, tobacconist. Fleet-street, July 26, at one—R. Parker, harness maker, Rupert-street, Haymarket, July 27, at eleven—G. Blaylock, linen draper, Bishopsgate-street, July 30, at one. In the Country. .G. Thomson and J. C. Clarke, merchants, Liverpool, Aug. 1, at ten, at the Commissioners-rooms, Manchester—L. J. C. Clayette, merchant, Manchester, July 27, at ten, at the Commis sioners-rooms, Manchester--H. Joel, watch dealer, Newcastle upon-Tyne, July 27, at ten, at the Bankrupt Commission-room, Newcastle-upon-Tyne —W. Watson, cattle dealer, Great Easby, Cumberland, July 29, at twelve, at the Crown and Mitre Inn, Car lisle—lt. Currey, cattle dealer, Lillswood, Northumberland, July 29, at twelve, at the Crown and Mitre Inn, Carlisle—J. Watling, merchant, Southtown, Aug. 1, at eleven, at the Duke's Head Inn, Great Yarmouth—B. Hickman, mercer, Ludlow, Shropshire, July 30, at eleven, at the Angel Inn, Ludlow—J. Barclay, general shopkeeper, Pembroke, Pembro'keshire, July 30, at eleven, at the Commercial-rooms, Bristol—T. Adamson, commission agent, Li verpool, July 27, at three, a% the office of Messrs. Radcliffe and Co., Liverpool—E. Brown and .1. and T. Davy, woollen manufac turers, Cullompton, Devonshire, Aug. 3, at twelve, at the Old London Inn, Exeter— R. and J. Clews, earthenware manufactu rers, Cobridge, Staffordshire, July 3 0 , at ten, at the Swan Inn , Hanley. CERTIFI C TE S. —.l utv 26. J. W. Gough, stationer, Dursley, Gloucestershire—J. Kelly, draper, Cambridge—T. Cooke, chemist, Parker-street, Liverpool— J. 'Beck, tea dealer, Derby—G. Armitage, timber merchant, Oldham, Lancashire—G. Nevvman, warehouseman, Lawrence-lane. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. T. and W. J. Fawsitt, silversmiths, Manchester—C. Harrington and J. Dover, black lead pencil manufacturers, Crosthwaite, Cum berland —H. Chamberlin and Co.,drapers, Norwich (as far as re gards R. Chamberlin)—G. Baker and D. Clark, wine merchants, 111anchester— G. B. and E. Cheetham, cotton spinners, Fogg- Brook, Chester —J. Hooper and W. Crimp, tea dealers, Kings bridge, Devonshire —J. Pettitt and A. Bowyer, sawyers, East Smithfield --C. Cooper and A. W. Hurley, chemists, Uxbridge— G. Cooper and W. Chambers, chemists, h eading, Berkshire—H. Barlow and J. Holt, Piercy-mill, Lancashire—R. Allen and T. Markham, Coach and Horses, Charles-street, Drury-lane--H. Wood and Co., Manchester (as far as regards H. Wood)—J. W. and J. W. Allen, school masters, Bridge House Academy, Lower mall, Hammersmith —R. Thorpe and W. Haynes, cheesemougers, Noble-street, Aldersgate-street—J. Savage and J. Boyce, carpen ters, Gray's Inn-terrace -11. and J. Bascomb, painters, Portsea, Southampton—G. Campbell and R. Holt, general dealers, Alan eliester—T. Anstey and Co., tailors, George-street, Hanover square (as far as regards W. Nettleton)—J. Hellicar and Co., corn factors, Bristol (as far as regards J. Hellicar)—J. T. Greg son and C. J. Westley , brokers, Liverpool—T. Heaton and J. Ha warden, colliers, Burgh, Lancashire —AV. Laforest and Co., wine merchants, College-hill (as far as regards T. D. Lees)—s. P on _ telex and Co., coppersmiths, Upper St. Martin s-lane (as far as re gards F. W. Yeowell)—J. and T. Thorpe, millers, Nottingham. - CORR HO ESPOOFNDENCRWICH AND E BETDRWHAMP DEHNEEN TE BISP O (Copy.) " London, April 4, 1836. D e :tr If bigotry had either ear or eye,' your publi cation eaonot fail to produce the laudable e ffect which you have in view, but I have resided too many years in the Uni versity of Oxford to give the majority of its learned members credit for liberal opinions. " Yours, &c.,' sincerely and affectionately, (Signed) " H. NORWICH." (Copy.) " Oxford, April 5, 1836. m"y Lord— I cannot forbear writing to express to you the delight and consolation, indeed, under these trying circumstances, which I have received from your Lord ship's facrourable acceptance of my inaugural lecture, It cannot be necessary for me to assure you, that the sena, merits which have there expressed flowed from my heart; but you will allow me to indulge my own feeling in declaring this to you, and to add, that a full conseltioness of my own sincerity of faith and at tachment to the Churl 4f England, has, under Providetteß, been my support Ahre;lo44qt 44:.; ex treme persecution. Theo: seems little hope of KotiOng (clap vietion on the minds of the Pi*-lots among my opponents; kitp it is cheering to find that the pohlig mind begins to be awa kened to a sense of the injustice am g.r4P . lty of the recent pro ceedings at Oxford ; at any rate, there is igeg ,comfort in the persuasion, that good will result, in the end, co 40 pause of Scripture truth out of all this violence, and struggle, sad " I beg leave, my Lord, with that affectionate respect which is due to one who has been so Long revered as a father in the Church, to subscribe myself your Lordship's obliged and faithful servant, (Signed) " R. D. HAMPDFN," THE REVENUE FOR THE YEAR AND QUARTER ENDING JULY 5, 1836. YEAR QUARTERS ENDED - Oct. 10, Jan: 5, I April 5, I 1831 1835 I 1835 ended July 5, July 5, 1835 1835 YEAR ended .luly 5, 183 Oct. 10, 1835 Jan. 5, ISM Year ended July 5. Customs.—Con , Olidatei Duties Sugar Duty apolieaqe to Consolidated Fund. Sugar Duty applcable to Supplies Total Customs Total etistonis ExciAe Stnmps....... !Taxes Post-otlice Excise Stamps Taxes Post Office Miscellaneous Total Ordinary Revenue Imprest and other Moneys, includ ing Re-payments of Advances for Public Works Imprest othcr, NUneys Total Income The Amount applied to the Con solidated Fund Ditto, to pay off Exchequer Bills charged on Sugar Duty Ditto, as part of the Ways and Means of the Year Deduct Decrease Increase on the Yvar Total No. I.—An Abstract of the Net Produce of the Revenue of Great Britain in the Years and Quarters ended sth of July, 1835, and sth of July, 1836, sheaving the Increase or Decrease on each head thereof. Quarter ended July 5. Increase. I Decrease. Increase. I Decrease. aasa 4.•• aca. 1,182,402 381,260 834,912 713,021 , 221 1 ,874 110,096 70,757 69,060 :34,000 870 2,815 54,931. 329 2,207,"58 251, 8 02 1,309,463 2,815 Deduct De crease. 251,602 2,815 Increase on. the Quarter' 2,045,45(1 1,306,818 July, 1836. Quarters ended July $. 1835 1836 7 , 942 , 533 8,115,438 697,164 726,797 10,183 6,579 125,515 344,077 127,500 127,5 1 ', 0 Civil List, ot the Heredi- Qat,n37 943,95! 9,184,252 10,264,342 1,526,558 2,487,595 10,710,810 12,751,927 d, and paid off out of the gilt • Sinking Fund) 4,174,522 of the Consolidated Fund 4 ,487,55 i 4,725,940 2,23,5,355 1 6,412,877 INCOME. Customs.—Consolidated Duties Sugar applicable to the Consolidated Fund Total Customs Excise Stamps Taxes Post Office Miscellaneous To Cash brought to this Account to replace the like sum issued, or to be issued, out of the Consolidated Fund in Ireland, for Supply and other Services QUARTERS ENDED April 183 i 5, I Julley36s, . -- 3,478,036 3,085,820 3,374,754 3,129,253 - 1 3,891,872 3,385,`99 3,417,614 3,571,541 -- 917,847 912,121 1,3:8,330 - - - 528,85.5 1,271,316 -- 1,472,464 392,018 - 3,000 - 1,462,115 1,034,516 503,359 - -+-______ __-_____ - ____ -...___•---- - - ---- 4,959,5 1 )0 4,30 ),721 4,26,8;7 4,461,627 18,904,721 ' 5,353,987 4,520,415 4,448,838 4,842,887 19,167, :27 3,924,78,5 3,484,200 1,687,574 2,5112,048 11,598/07 4,0117,375 3,347,163 1,8 1 3,312 3,215,059: 12,433,519 1,659,008 1,57,5,462 1,651,387 1,6 4,171 6,4 3,023 ' 1,671,204 1,619,517 1,697,884 1,734,269 6,72-2,9 , 1 503,714 1,63 3 ,120 2 1 5,304 1,510,393 , 3,857,591 35.5,120 1, 5 75,610 199,064 1,571,150 3/90,9 )80 3(50,000 , 323,000 3' , 9,000 342,001 . 1,3.41,00) i 372,000 315,000 366,001 376,0)10 1,45 0 , 4 )00 ! 1,712 33,447 10,988 10,7 8 0 61,930 1 16,513 , 21,576 10,743 7,!,74 02,'0(3 11,410,719 11,339,050 8,241,190 10,141,020 41,135,887 11,770,199 ! 11,129,947 8,582, 841 11,747 , 347 43,530;431 I 1.9,527 1 59,611 216,731 101,159 477,131 1 79,269 , 142,531 99,702 101,599 422,140 ---- --- 11,510,246 i 1 1 ,399,50 1 8,460,924 1 10,542,287 ; 41,912,018 111,854,468 11,572,523 8,682,5 43 t 11,848,935 ; 43,952, 174 ' --- 7,500,541 8,27)1,218 5,228,543 6,917,595 27,922,897 7,359,989 8,123,429 5,780,883 7,122,895 28,337,`96 1,472,464 302,048 - - 1,774,512 1,462,115 1,034,516 503,369 - , 3/00,005 2,537,241 2,821,295 3,21. 2,391 3/24,692 12,9.15,60 3,032,364 2,414,583 2,388,291 4,725,940 1 .1,571,17 ; i 11,510,246 1 11,31 0,581 8,460,924 1 10,542,287 1 41,913,018 i I 11,854,468 i 11,572,528 8/82,543 111,84 3 ,035 ! 4',81 8 ,•1'1 I No. ll.—lncome and Charge of the Consolidated Fund, Quarters ended J uly 5. In the Quarters ended the sth July, 1835, and the sth July, 1836. 3,129,`248 1,328,339 4,457 ) (3127 2,502,e4S 1,w24,171 1,5. 0,393 342,000 28,04 S 10,4 5-1;287 25(3,5'2.3 10,710,810 LITERATURE • THE FOREIGN QUARTERLY REVIEW. No. XXXIV. Loudon, Richter and Co. Of the eleven articles comprised in the July Number of the " Foreign Quarterly," the most interesting is the Review of the Merck Correspondence ; the most re condite the observations suggested by the labours of the Record and Historical Commissioners of England and France ; the most philosophical the remarks on Thibeaudeau's Memoirs of Napoleon ; the most de servedly severe the strictures on Prince Piickler- Muskau's late Tour in France and Germany ; and the nearest akin to a bookseller's puff the laudatory intro duction of Von Tietz's Reminiscences of Russia, Turkey and Greece. John Henry Merck was a sound scholar, a distin guished critic, and what contributed not a little to the social enjoyment of his friends—the owner of an ample fortune. He resided at Darmstadt, was for some time connected with the Frankfort Journal, and throughout his life appears to have exercised the most extraordinary influence over his literary Contem poraries. Goethe declared that no man had exercised so great an influence over his life as Merck ; Herder only besought Heaven to continue him in the pos session of such a friend ; and Wieland protested in the fulness of his heart that he would love Goethe and Merck were he to love nothing else on earth. The correspondence which we have here coupled with the name of this extraordinary man is a selection of letters, addressed to him between 1770 and 1790, by the most eminent literary men in Ger many, and several distinguished foreigners—all on subjects connected with literature or personal attach ments. In the list of Correspondents we find, be sides the distinguished individuals above named, the Grand Duke and Duchess of Weimar, Sophia de la Roche, author of " Rosalie's Letters," &c., H. Fuseli, Baie, Nicolai, Dalberg, Prince Primate of Frankfort, Blumenbach, Sir Joseph Banks, &c. &c. The ex tracts which the reviewer has made from these charm ing letters fill us with the greatest desire to be come acquainted with the original work. Among the several choice spirits which lie introduces thus familiarly to our acquaintance he appears himself as an old favourite with each, and even :in their presence in terrupts the conversation to tell us what lie thinks of them, while they sit chatting apart in the most good humoured way possible. Thus he says very beauti fully, as well as correctly, of Goethe— , " In appreciating the vantage-ground which the collected mind obtains over the being of impulse and passion, Goethe seems to have aimed and arrived at that stoical atmosphere of self-possession, whence he could leisurely survey the vast mass of human nature (lying like the " cloud bedecked pano rama of Germany") beneath him ; and deliberately choose and appropriate those portions best adapted for his use. To accomplish this, he necessarily sacrificed the indulgence of those affections by which the independence of other minds is compromised. To Nature he gave his heart, and felt it securely invested ; to Mankind his understanding, and nothing more, and though, by the immense range and ardent cultivation of his versatile genius, for which no subject was so intricate that it did not seek to explore it, no fact so simple that it disdained to appropriate it, he indirectly included the direct benefit of his fellow-creatures, (he was, for instance, the original inventor and first projector of the excel lent system of national schools in Germany), yet we may safely question whether he was influenced so much by an ex. panded philanthropy as by a refined selfishness. At the same time, by the same process by which he controlled the elements of his own passions, was he enabled to agitate them in the bosom of others, No one could kindle stronger and more lasting attachments; no heart remain more fire-proof than his own. He despised not the sweets of love or friendship, and no author has more vividly described them, but he culled them only so far as was consistent with his prescribed law of independence. After his first boyish fancies, it may be doubted whether he ever loved ; but as the fresh breath of youth is supposed to invigorate the failing energies of old age, so did Goethe refresh the powers of his imagination at the fountain of an overflowir e' , heart, and catch the very tone of truth from the impassioned effusions of his votaries. * " In poetry, although he has bequeathed so much to poste rity, he seems, like our Pope, to display rather a sytematic versification of prose, than a spontaneous effusion of verse. He had neither the poet's timidity nor the poet's flights. Mankind he took as he found them, neither seeking nor caring to make them better. He fixed no ideal stan dard, therefore experienced no disappointment. He was highly receptive, but rarely sensitive—imaginative without an ideal—poetical without fiction ; and the good old age to which he attained may be attributed less to his robust physical con stitution than to the absence of all mental irritation." And still more beautifully of Wieland—.the happy husband, the fond father, the affectionate friend, the simple citizen, and the sweet poet Wieland was indeed just what a poet ought to be. Dwelling in a dream of beauty and home of love, no views of aggrandisement, or visions of perfection, disturbed the one or embittered the other. Health, peace, and competence, were. all he sought for his muse, his family, or himself. Poetry he loved for poetry's sake, and, quoting from a former work of his own, he thus addresses his muse : " ' Thou art, oh, Muse 1 the blessing of my life, And if the world be deaf, then sing to me alone.' Pure and lively in diction, fanciful and elegant in sentiment, he neither provokes to mirth, nor depresses to melancholy. In the same relation as flowers and birds in the scale of ani mated nature, is Wieland's verse in the ranks of modern literature. He aspired not to form one of the seven pillars of the temple of wisdom, but his were the roses which clustered to the very pinnacle. And, to conclude in the words of the late Mr. Taylor—' If not the greatest genius among the poets, he was the greatest poet among the geniuses of Germany." In the justice of the Reviewer's censures of the indolence of the English Record Commissioners we entirely concur. For thirty-five years has this country h -een at the expense of keeping up this farce of an enquiry into the state of our national records ; • and yet the French Government, at the , sog gestion of M. GUIZOT, has done more to elucidate its history in three years than we have done during all that time, 13nt the fact is, that most of the Commissions issued in England, ObialY in pnn6qUCTICC of the indolenc e of the Ministry, are convon ,4 ino thy means of carrying on a system of jobbing and TY? too many instances a Commissioner is but another name toe a ginecurist, The article on Thibeaudeau Memoirs of the Con sulate of r4apoleon and of the Empire, is written with much ability. The Reviewer well observes, that before the publication of Thibeaudeau's work we had 3,502,347 1,9.71,346 4,833,693 3,215,C69 1,734,267 1,571,150 376,000 29,569. 11,759,741 992,156 12,751,927 CHARGE. Permanent Debt. Terminable Annuities Interest on Exchequer Bills issued to meet the charge on the Consolidated Fund Sinking Fund The Civil List Other charges on the Consolidated Fund, including Civil Government Services formerly pail out of the Civil List, o► the Heredi tary Revenues of the Crown Total Charge......... The Surplus ............. . The Amount of Exchequer Bills issued to meet the charge on the Consolidated Fun growing produce of that Fund for the Quarter ended sth April, 1836, (exclusive of The Amount issued in the Quarter ended sth July, 18.36, in part of the sums grant ' for Supply Services ced Fund Itled July 5, 1836 id for the Quarter ended, and paid off out of the f 300,004. paid off out of th • Sinking Fund) ted by Psrliament out of the Consolidated Fund . 1 1 The Surpliis Of the Consolidate I The probable amount of Exchequer Bills required to meet the charge on the Cons, Quarter en, undated Fund, Quarter ended July 5, 1536 but a 'very indifferent politician. He relates facts exactly as they occurred, and his dates, as far as they extend, are less liable to cavil than Scaliger's chrono logy of the world ; but he frequently mistakes their causes, and assumes as their consequences the results of measures with which they had but a very remote connection. He frequently assumes important facts on insufficient data—as when he tells us, on the authority of a Russian Officer, that Europe had m►s taken the character of Catherine 11. of Russia ! As suming Europe to be mistaken, what an authority for the fact ? The Work is dedicated, by permission, to our Gracious Sovereign, whose portrait forms the frontis piece. Prefixed to the Second Number are hand some portraits of Admiral Lord Duncan and Admiral Earl Howe. The tabular part of the Work has been drawn up from official documents, communicated to the Author by the Government. In justice to the Author, as well as to our readers, we extract the fol lowing account of the " Glorious First of June," 1794, as a fair specimen of " Brenton's Naval His tory of Great Britain" " The fog on the 30th and 31st of May having separated the fleets, kept the British Admiral in much anxious sus pense; at length the sun rose on the glorious Ist of June: it was Sunday; the weather was more moderate and the sea smoother than they had been on the preceding days. In the interval between the 28th and the Ist of June, a ship of the line had joined the French fleet, and replaced the Revolu tionaire, making their number twenty-six, and leaving ours twenty-five. At half-past seven Lord Howe directed his people by a general signal to have their breakfasts. About half-past eight, A. M. his own fleet was formed in such com. pact and excellent order, that as he looked to the right and left, to starboard and to port, his ships were in a perfect line parallel to the enemy, with the wind S. by W. on the larboard quarter, renning north-west under their single reefed topsails at the rate of five miles an hour. The French fleet about two miles to the westward, waiting the attack with great ap parent resolution ; this is the first instance on record of the -French waiting for a general action upon comparatively equal terms ; and their ships not being all commanded by naval officers, I am confirmed in the opinion that the threat of the guillotine had much share in fixing the enemy's line, and that many heeds would have fallen on the return of their fleet to Brobt hut for the timely fate of Robespierre: this 1 sar on the authority of Admiral Villaret. " The signal No. 39 had been made and answered ; its purport was, that, having the weather ga g e o f th e enem y, the Admiral means to pass between the ships of their line and engage them to leeward; or being to leeward, to run through and engage them to windward ;' but it is added in sk note, the different captains and commanders, not being able to effect this intention, are at liberty to act as circumstances may re quire.' Fhis was an excuse for a fault before it was com mitted : the explanation was useless to a good officer, and fatal to a had one : it disconcerted the plan so ably laid down by the. Admiral, and left him, with the bravest of his fol lowers, to bear the heat of the battle. Those who nobly disdained to avail themselves of this indulgence, and passed through the line, proved that with them every Z!ons id erati on vanished before the honour and safety e• their king and country. " When the hostile fleets were ' ln tile position just de scribed, and not many minutes previous to the action, Lord Howe, turning to Bowen the master, said, I now shut up my signal-book, and 1 treat I shall have no occasion to re - open it to-day.' This was the language of an officer con fiding in the valour of his captains ; and determined, after haviug obtained a proper situation for commencing the action, to do his own duty, and to set an example to his followers. The words wore scarcely spoken before one of bis ships, on his larboard beam, brought -to, in direct disobedience to the signal which enjoined him to run through the line and engage his opponent to leeward : it is true, he had a discretionary power, but only in the event of his finding- it impossible to execute the intention of the signal, and not otherwise. This conduct was both mortifying and alarming. The firing had begun ; the signal was immediately thrown nut for the ship to make sail, but it was not oboyedi and this, I am sorry to say, was not the ouly insterme of te a isconduct which occurred in the battit, elf the jst of June. At fifty-two minutes past not the Queen Charlotte opened her fire ; some British ships went through the line and engaged to leeward, and one or two fell an hoard of their opponents, and continued to engage them. In going down to the enemy some of our ships had been much disabled from their fire, particularly the Queen Charlotte, the Queen, the Brunswick, and others. Lord Howe walked on the front of the poop, attended by Sir Roger Curtis the captain of the fleet, Sir Andrew Douglas the captain of the ship, and the signal officers : the men were falling fast round them, which the veteran Admiral beheld with perraot composure and without returning a shot. At length, after much persuasion, he consented that they should fire from the man, and quarter deck guns only, meaning to reserve the middle and lower decks for closer action. The officers, at those batteries, hearing the firing over their heads, supposed they were at liberty to begin, and gave the whole broad-side, re-loading however with great celerity. The Montagne was still the object of the British Admiral, the largest, perhaps the finest, ship at that time in the world. Lord Howe desired Bowen to lay him as close along-side of her e's lie could c Bowen, a steady, brave, and determined seaman, knew his duty and did it : he conducted the ship so close under the stern of the Montagne, that the fly of the tri coloured ensign brushed the main and mizen shrouds of the Queen Charlotte as she poured her larboard broadside into her opponent's starboard quarter. The Montagne does not appear to have been prepared for action on that side ; her ports were down, and it was some time before she returned a gun : the effect upon this unfortunate ship was the loss of three hundred men killed and wounded ; so Admiral Villaret assured me himself when we talked the battle over in our voyage home from Martinique. Jean Bon St. Andre, the re presentative of the people, was standing near the French Ad miral when the firing began ; but he instantly disappeared, and remained in the cockpit during the rest of the action. At this moment th e J aco bi n , secon d a -stern of the Montwene, either by accident or design, ran so close up under the lee of his Admiral that there was not room for the Queen Charlotte to take the position intended by Lord Howe on the lee beam of his opponent; and in consequence of this failure the Queen Charlotte's helm was kept a-port, and she passed between the stern of the Jacobin and head of her second * raking them both at the same time: the Jacobin then media sail, and the Queen Charlotte immediately came to the wind on the lar board tack to engage the Montagne, in doing which her fore topmast fell over the side. The French Admiral instantly taking advantage of this accident, moved off, leaving the Queen Charlotte engaged with the two ships second and third a-stern of the Montagne. At ten minutes past ono the action had ended with the centre, and Villaret made sail to leeward to join his disabled ships, lint the firing did not entirely cease till four o'clock 3 When the French Admiral having collected his 011 1 14, hve sea of which were dismastcd, stood t o the northseast, leaving Lord Howe master of the field of battle with seven sail of prizes, one of which foundered before the prisoners could be r emove d : t wo h un dred and eietllq Alen tlq were all that could b e save d out o f seven h"CLA,. oh which she began the action ; the rest veto Ofecieedrewned.. There was no cry of Tee se iaisely stated in ihP Mtn • tefitol:l. irerich Golou r 4 were strnek. and the sank delYe v; nth the English jack oyer the ReickAll 4 all Aag , The heats . nh' the British fleet; yp.ry ActiVti to saving the men, who 11%4m-11.1i* nleecy this ship was named Le Vengeur, and was the same that had engaged the Brunswick." THE SCOTTISH MONTHLY IVA GAZINE. 11( - 441444 and Craddock. Till:. is the second Number of a very promising pe riodical ; but as it only reached our office on the 4th, we are prevented from entering into a critical analysis of its contents. Publishers have only themselves to blame for much that may appear neglect on our part. Seeing the great trouble which we take with Monthly and Quarterly periodicals, it is not unreasonable that we should expect to have them forwarded to us on the day of publication at the latest. We trust this hint will be taken by more than our Glasgow friends. There is a time for everything, aid the first of the month is the time, and the only time, lin. Magazine notices. SCOTT S PROSE WORKS. Vol. XXVII. Cadell, _Edinburgh, 1836. Contains a continuation of the popular « Tales of My Grandfather," embellished with two skilful en gravings, one of Calais, the other of Rouen, executed by Richardson and Horsburgh, from designs furnished by Turner. LIBRARY OF THE GRA CES. No I. Cookes, London, 1836. This is a first Number, and like all first I ,:iumbers, as full of promises as a Parliamentary Candidate. It is got up with skill and care .all ti ); :n,gsconsidered—and the literary department is "superior to the ordinary average of Lady periodic his. If it goes on as well as it has begun, it ca".7lot fail to be successful. CABINET CYCLOPJEDIA—VoL. 80. Longman, London, 1836. This volume forms the third of the Rev. Mr. Thirlwall's History of Greece, commencing with the period of the Athenian maritime ascendancy, and terminating with the Sicilian expedition and the sur render of Nicias. The work is gracefully, *and above all, impartially written, and in this respect is far superior to Mitford's History=whose treatment of Demosthenes must ever remain a blot on his character as a temperate, fair-dealing annalist. no life of the First Consul and the Emperor as a legislator. We knew enough of Napoleon as a man and a warrior ; but little or nothing of him as a Con stitution-monger. The following judicious observa tions on the causes which mainly contributed to the success of tyranny in France ought to be carefully studied by those who are short-sighted enough to sup pose that Corporations, under all circumstances, are no securities against bad government. We allude not to the Peers, but to a very large proportion of the liberal middling classes:— " Any one who will take the pains to follow the progress of any particular department of the State throughout the complicated changes of the French Revolution, will find that the march of that Revolution, from the proclamation of the Republic, has been a continued progress towards centralization of powers in the hands of the Executive and in the Minis terial offices of the capital, destroying one after another every individual or local guarantee or franchise, which could protect the people against the sweeping acts of any faction that succeeded in getting possession of Paris. In other countries, such as Switzerland, England, the United States, Holland, &c., the liberty of the whole nation has been consi dered as resting upon the liberties of the parts, fractions, and individuals, of that nation ; in France it' was made to rest upon the destruction of every local and individual liberty. Hence, the little opposition that the successive governments, terrorist, directorial, consular, and imperial, met with to their usurpations among the great mass of the people, for all the elements of resistance had been previously annihilated. Hence conscriptions, maritime inscription in forced levies of sailors, contributions, forced paper money, special courts, arbitrary arrests, proscriptions, measures which have hardly a parallel in the worst times of the old monarchy, were all en forced in the name of liberty, and submitted to with the most abject compliance. This contradiction between words and facts, between professions and reality, is found to prevail throughout the whole system and progress of the French Revolution ; throughout its domestic and foreign relations, during 25 years, there was a want of candour, sincerity and plain speaking ; and it will require a long season of peace, and wise government, and a new political and moral education of the people, to do away with the habits and language of mys tification long engendered and fostered, by which the minds of the generation grown up in those times have been i❑ some measure affected." The surest safeguards of a country against the op pression of its Government will ever be found in its municipal institutions, provided care is taken to keep them sufficiently open—neither permitting them to dwindle into petty oligarchies, or to fall into desuetude through the indolence of the people. Of this article we extract the closing passage, on the consequences of the revolution, and the misguided policy of Napoleon, i❑ exchanging the Consular for the Imperial au- thority " Thus ended the French republic, after a stormy existence of hardly twelve years. It began in blocd and spoliation ; it terminated in trickery and mystification. The great body of the people had never understood it, and yet a million of men were slain in its behalf. The abolition of exclusive privileges, which was the pretext for it, had been accomplished before by the first assembly, which proclaimed the constitutional mo narchy. But they afterwards rashly destroyed that Constitu tution, and now, after twelve years of continual agitation, they took refuge under the shade of an imperial throne, without any popular representation whatever. Such is ever the re- • action produced by extremes. Of the Governments that suc ceeded each other during those twelve years, the consular was by far the best. With all its faults, Bounaparte's consulship is an epoch which we love to dwell upon in memor) ; it was a season of peace for France, a breathing time for mankind, sacred by the sanguinary violence of the convention, and the still more odious profligacy of the directorial government. It was a return to order and to reason, when the language of frenzy made way for that of humanity and justice, when the various classes and nations again understood each other. It was a brilliant epoch, in which many a good man in every land of Europe had his hopes fixed on him whose star seemed then to shine with a benignant lustre. For a time at least be evinced a respect for public opinion and morality; he displayed feelings of benevolence; he turned his attention to civil matters ; he re-organized the social sys tem. He showed himself liberal to his friends , merciful to his enemies, just towards all. France was greatly indebted to him for that period, in which he reecinstiaieted it as a State, and laid the basis of its permanent greatness. To himself that was a dignified resting-place, after the brilliancy of his former campaigns. Had he contented himself with a magis tracy for life, surrounded by ample prerogatives—had he pre served at least the essential principle and forms of a repre sentative Constitution—had he chosen to make France a great, industrious, and commercial nation instead of a military and conquering one—he might have lived in honour, and died in peace, followed by the blessings of men. The Bourbons were nearly forgotten, their cause had been abandoned by all the powers ; we have Napoleon's own assertion of the fact. The only plausible excuse for following the course he preferred was the uncertainty of his life, and tho conspiracies that were repeatedly hatched against him. But the plea is insufficient, for no conspiracy really endangered his life after that of the infernal machine of 1800 ; and, after all, did the assumption of absolute power secure in the end the hereditary succession in his family ? His being childless ought to have been an " additional reason for his being satisfied with a temporary and limited power. See how many false steps that phantom of succession and hereditary dynasty led him into ! He repo. diated the wife of his choice, allied himself to a rival house, and fell at last notwithstanding all, and his only s m hardly reached the age of manhood alter him. He chose to act the more vulgar part of a conqueror, and as such he will ba chiefly , remembered in history." Of that personification of frivolous coxcombry, Prince Packler-Muskau, the world has heard enough. The Reviewer denounces him as a " superficial scrib bler of silly sentimentalities, shallow witticisms, and gabbling gossip." As we heartily coincide in this opinion, we shall take no further notice of his late wanderings in France and Germany. The great fault of this Number is, that it wants substance. There is not body enough in it ; and se veral of the Reviews are written in a very common ph,e s tyl e . We may be mistaken, but our impression on perusing it Was, that several of the papers bore the impress of being the production of one contributor. Nevertheless, a few of the articles are very good, and three of superior merit. THE AAVAL lIIS7'ORY of GREAT BRITAIN By - EDWARD PEl.ll.lm BRENTON, R. N. Parts 1. and ii, London, album, 193 U. Captain Brenton appears to possess, in a pre-emi nent degree, the qualifications necessary for a good naval historian. He writes with the honest bluntness pf a m whqs . 9 1 41qii19§$: it is, tg lay fqPt§? w'~tlla,llt l4= gut]. to scholafly acituhements, ang without a thought of those niceties of style $o highly pri4e4 by the fasti, diously critical. To tell the truth, and to tell it with all possible brevity, is all that he particularly aims at, with the ivp el.ceptioll of an ocmienal dissertation on the policy of the principal thiropean states, and then, it must be confessed, he fairly loses his latitude. The Captain is a good Naval Chronicler, THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 1536 MUSIC. MUSICAL LIBRARY. PART XVIII. a Knight, London, 1836. A well got up periodical, containing, among other recommendations, extracts from the musical composi tions of Mozart, Clementi, Mercadante, Arnold, Sto race, Ihnninel, and Bartholdv. Considering the size of the work, and the great quantity of matter it corn plises, it is singularly cheap in price. CORPORATIONS (IRELAND) BILL. PROTEST AGAINST REJECTING THE COMMONS' AMENDMENTS TO THE MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS (IRELAND) BILL. Dissentient— Because, however undoubted may be the right, and how ever essential to the Constitution the exercise of the right, of separate and independent judgment in each House of Par liament, it is not less essential that all unnecessary collision should be avoided. Because, in the present instance, the House of Commons made advances towards an agreement which, in my bumble opinion, might beneficially have been met with a similar and corresponding disposition. Because, thinking as I do that Conservative principles, and respect for the beneficent institutions of former times, are es sential to the duly tempering any desire of change which, in the name and with the hopes of improvement, may rise up in a free and enlightened people, I cannot but think the destroy. ing all the Corporations in Ireland highly adverse to those principles, especially when the purpose is to be effected by amendments to a Bill rather than by a distinct and substantive measure, examined and decided with all the caution, delibera tion, and justice, for which the forms of each House have care fully provided sufficient opportunities in the discussion of all important measures. Because the object of destroying or withholding civil rights, because their exercise might fall to a majority of voters not professing the religion of the Established Church, would lead, if pursued, to annihilate one of the noblest acts of liberality, wisdom, and just confidence in our own religion which ever honoured the Legislature, and especially this House, which took the lead on that ever-memorable occasion of just and en. lightened policy. Because I would not join in fixing the embarrassment of this unsettled question upon the present or upon any future Admi nistration, nor would I expose to certain misconstruction and misrepresentation the conduct which I cannot doubt has been dictated by the most sincere and virtuous motives in a majority of this House. Because I would not arm and assist those ri'do mean mis. chief; nor would I, at the close of a long l;!:e., leave a legacy of discontent and disaffection to a sensit",ve, brave, and loyal people. CLARENDON. June 30, 1836. MARKET *INTELLIGENCE. ( From ti n e New London Price Current of July 5.) Su° ':e.—Jamaica good and fine yellow have fetched 735. a mid. and bright for the scale 70s. a 725., brown 683. a 695. ; St. Kitts and St. Vincents strong for the pan 70s. a 715., brown 675. a 695. ; Demerara middling 695. a 71., brown 675. a 68s. ; Tobago, &c., middling and grey, 695. a 715., brown 685.. The Gazette price is now 12s. above that of last year at this time. At public sale 100 hhds. Barbadoes fetched fully the rates of the last sale, 70s. a 745. for good to fine. This day shippers are still ut of the Market, but owing to the stock of goods on hand being light the Refiners hold for fully former rates, 90s. for bumps to pass, and 87s. a 88s. for those under the standard. FOREMN.-Inferior Bahia at 275. a 295., and Rios at 33s : at auction, 14 chests Pernambuco taken in at 393 1 for strong fair white, and fine yellow at 31s. MAURITIUS-sold at 60s. a 645., mid. grey 655, a 665. Gd., low and good yellow 665. 6d. a 695., fine 70s. a 71s. EAST INDIA.-The public sale this day of 6,698 bags Manilla sold without briskness 6d. ander former rates, goad brown to ord. yellow 325. a 335. 6d., damps 30s. 6d. a 315., wet and shifted 235. Gd. a 275. MoLAssns.-West India Molasses advanced in value last week 2s. a 3s. : the sales were Demerara old at 30s. Gd., good 31s. a 325. ; Antigua, fine at 345. 6d., good 325. a 335. ; Montserrat, 31s. Gd. ; St. Kitts, ord. 31s. ; Tortolas, fine 335. COFFER.-The transactions in the Coffee Market this day were confined to the public sales. 52 bales Mocha went rather cheaper ; good mixed, bold, pale, green, clean, garbled, at 665. 6d. Jamaica middling went at 91s. 6d. a 925. ; good and fine ordinary, 78s. a 84s. 100 bags good Ceylon at the 6d. duty sold readily at former rates, 765. 6d. Foreign Market continues heavy. QUICKSILVER.-Sales have been made at 3s. 4d., being 2d. lower. TIN. —Banca Tin has been sold at 1205., but there are no sellers now under 130 s. a 1355. Straits at public sale went at 119 s. 6d. Oms.—Black Oil at 301. and some heavy at 281. Rape has declined to 475. 6d. for pale and dull of sale. Sperm is held firmly at 801., but there is less doing. INDIGO.—The prices remain firm at 4d. a 6d. profit. SALTPETILE.—CaIcutta refraction 121 293. 6d. a 305., 6 per cent. 303. 6i. a 31s. This day the prices continue very firm, and 196 bags at public sale sold at 30s. 6d. for good white Calcutta, refraction 2 per cent. Rica.-13engal at public sale, sold at 16s. for fine white, ordinary and good 123. a 15s. 6d. ; Java 10s. a lls. Gd. ; Ma dras 12s. a 12s. 6d. At public sale to-day good white, but. very small and dusty, at 13s. a 14s. TALLOW.—There are no sellers under 453. 6a: a .15s. 9d. The advises from St. Petershurgh state a brisk •Lemand for Tallow, the prices up to 132 a 134 roubles, which would stand the buyer in 48s. 6d. a . 483. 9d. to import Tallow to this Market. Hors.-There is nothing doing a the market, and the duty is estimated at 250,0001. from 565. a 595. 6d. TURPENTINE.-Prices In i ve o lv b a a n r c re ed ls t v o e 7 ry ss. go to od 76s. COCOA.-This after:loon, lied Tri nidad sold briskly itt high prices , SricEs.-Cas . sia Lig-nea, middling quality at 675. 6d. a 68s. 0. Pimento, ordinary at aid. a 3ad., mid. 4d. a 4 . 1-d. F;:ne half heavy Malabar Pepper at 41d. a 44d. Nutmegs con tinue dull of sale; and 12 casks Cape Nuts, at auction, were taken in at 6s. a 6s. 6d. An advance of Bs. has taken place in West India Ginger; 9 casks Mace, for exportation only, went this day at 4s. a 4s. ld. for good fair seconds ; 5 casks Nutmegs from Rotterdam taken in at 3s. 10d. a 4s. I Id. ; 184 bags Pimento all sold at steady prices, ord. to mid. at 3d. a q-d. Rory, BRANDY AND HOLLANDS.-Jamaica and Leeward Island Rum at an advance of 4d. to ld. per gallon; the sale has amounted to 350 puns. Jamaica, 36 to 40 over-proof 4s. 4d. to 4s. Bd., 28 to 35 3s. 11d. to 4s. 3d. ; 400 puns. Lee wards 32 per cent. 3s. 10d. to 3s. I Id., 16 to 26 over 2s. 9d. to 3s . 4 d. ; 7 to 9 over 2s. s?d. to 2s. 7d., 3 to 6 over 2s. 3d. to 2s. 4d., proofs to 2 over 2s. 21d., besides a large parcel of Demerara 7 per cent. over 2s. sd. Brandy and Geneva still heavy of sale, PaovislQNs,-There has been a brisk demand for Dutch Butter at 78s. to 80s. for the best quality. Bacon has been MAtch in demand, prime qualities at 465. to 485., and inferior And old descriptions at 425. to 445. Lard has given way 25., and is still neglected. MUSICAL TITLES, FROM THE MSS. OF A LOB LOLLY BOY'S COLLECTIOL—" The Italien Man Fry day.' Brite, chant I cleer." How sweet in the Oodlings.' Live letters cherish.' Old Lady Fare.' A jew, a jew, my dearest life." Haul in the Downes." Moggy's Larder.' ' Herring go bray.' Veeve henry Cart.' Robbin had hair.' A VULGAR ERROR.—It is a p r evailing vulgar error, that when a bishop has an offer made of a bishopric, he affects a maiden coyness, and answers nolo episcopari. The origin of these words and this notion I have not been able to discover; the bishops certainly give no such answer at pre sent, and I am inclined to think they never did at any time in this country.—Christian's Notes to Blackstone. - 7"" LONDON DOCK COMPA A General Meeting of the Proprietors of this Company was held yesterday at the Dock House, for the purpose of declaring a dividend, and on other matters, JOHN CATTLEY, Esq., in the Chair. The SECRETARY read a statement of reeeiptl caul ex , penditurc for the last half year 1 from which it appqarecii that the earnings of the Docks in the period ju s t s talk were 128,774 L, which, with other Rena or receipts, tP:Adts a total of l:38,4113/. The okpendittire, including' m a in• tenance, salaries, labour, &c., amounted to tl' sum of 91,469/., leaving a balance applicable to dividend of 46,9331. The CHAIIIMAN . read a resolution t'..) the effect that a dividend of 11.55. per cent. be declared upon the Company's stock, for the half year ending t►- x 30th inst. The resolution was put fro*.n the Chair and agreed to. The SECRETARY then Izoceeded to read a comparative statement of the amount ni tonnage which had entered the London Docks ill t'►e three half years previous to the present half-ye7a. The tonnage of vessels entering these docks W ?:3 as follows : or the half-year ending 31st May, 1833 55,185 tons. Ditto ditto ditto 1834 ... 68,404 Ditto ditto ditto 1835 ... 74,595 Th*? average of these three half-years would be 67,061 tons. 'The amount of tonnage which has entered the docks during the present half-year. ending 31st Mal,, 1836, was 69,418 tons. The earnings of the docks were in the three half-years ending 31st May in each year, on an average 119,3071. ; and for the half-year ending 31st May last, they amounted to 128,0001., being an increase of 9,500/. on the average before-mentioned. The Secretary proceeded to read other details connected with the affairs of the Com pany. The sums borrowed to pay up dividends in 1833 and 1834, has been reduced to only 5,800/. The outstand ing debts due to the Company amounted to 111,327/. COURT OF ALDERMEN. Yesterday a Court of Aldermen was held for the trans action of public business. The subject of greatest interest before the Court was a motion of compromise in the long and vigourously fought battle between the Court of Alder men and Mr. Scales. There was a fuli attendance of Aldermen. Mr. Duke, the newly-elected Sheriff, attended, accom panied by Mr. Wire, his Under-Reriff, to give bond to take upon himself the office. Tile new Sheriff received the congratulations of the Court. THE COURT OF ALDERMEN AND MR. SCALES. Alderman Wool) rose to submit a motion upon a subject to which the Court had been long accustomed—that of the trials which had taken place with regard to Mr. Michael Scales and the inhabitants of the Ward of Portsoken.. The result of these trials, so far as they had been decide , l, was in favour of the Court of Aldermen. The matter had been carried on for several years. Mr. Scales had been elected three times by the Portsoken constitnency, and with an increased majority each time. 'three elections proved beyond a doubt that he was ti,,e determined choice of the inhabitants. Alderman Witod cone'iuded by moving the following resolution : That although this Court is of opinion that the decisions which have heretofore been given. in the varibus proceedings instituted in respect to the el.e.c , :ion of an Alderman for the ward of Portsoken, by Mr. 111;.chael Scales, would be con firmed by the Lords, if the: 'writ of error now pending were carried to a hearing, ir,asmuch as the immediate termina tion of legal proceed:air s would put an end to the dissensions which have unhapoiv existed in that ward for some years past, this Court, with 11 'view to attain so desirable an object, do consent to fe''..oo•Ar enforcing the payment of the costs incurred by the C 1 4 4, provided the said appeal be voluntarily withdrawn, and th^, respective parties concerned do allow judgment to be enfor the defendant, in the case of The King v. jr.; t n e nlo d up n,, and for the defendants in the case of Scales v. Sir John Key and others.' " Alderman HAJUSER rose to second the motion. Alderman Brown, Alderman Venables, Sir Peter Laurie, the Lord Mayor, Alderman Farebrotber, Alderman Seim ley, Alderman White, and Sir Chapman Marshall, 'raving spoken, Alderman WOOD withdrew his motion, in the hope of an amicable termination of the contest. A porpoise, measuring in length 8 ft. 6 in., in girth 4 ft. 8 in., and weighing 3 cwt., was cauglit in the weirs below Singleton in our bay, on Monday last; it was exhibited during the day, and afterwards purchased by the Philosophical Institution for preservation.— Cambrian. QUICK VOYAGE.—The Mountaineer steam packet left Swansea at mid-day on Thursday se'nnight for Li verpool and returned on Monday evening, during which time she called at Milford to land and take in passengers and goods in going and coming back, as well as discharged and loaded at Liverpool.• occupying a period of not less than 21 hours ; thus performing a voyage of about 600 miles in three clear days. This route affords to passengers a delightful view of the coast of Wales, and the Straits of Menai with its beautiful and stupendous bridge. — Cambrian. HORRIBLE OCCURRENCE.—Yesterday morning, a middle aged and respecto;ole farmer named William Lett, of Clone, went out to his field, to catch an old wicked en tire horse, which was at the time cross-fettered ; the animal allowed Mr. Nett to put on a winker, when he seized the wretched man by the arm ; who in expectation of getting freed from the monster-grasp, endeavoured to seize him by the tongue, which the brute seeming to anticipate, fell upon poor Lett, and began eating his thigh across—no assistance had thu unfortunate man near him but two dogs, and faithful in time of need, attacked the horse, and worried him so as to c0tr4)..1 him to relinquish his hold, by which their master got fre ed from the monster, and as well as he could crawled to, the ditch and cried for help ; the nearest doctor was bi - arght, who severed the hangling limb; but distressing to say, the poor fellow had been so much injured, that he died Ir. great agony late that night or early on Tuesday morning. He has left a wife and five or six children to deplore 'his awful death.— Wexford Independent. EAST INDIA COMPANY'S MARITINUR SERVICE. —On Monday a meeting of the officers of the above service who are excluded from the scale of com?er,sation awarded under the provisions of the India Bill, took pace at the South Carolina coffee-house, Birehin-lane, for tI.K: purpose of receiv ing a report of the committee, and to cen6der the best means to be adopted for obtaining compenski; on for the losses they have sustained by the abolition of this East India Company's commercial monopoly. Captain Jam es Barber took the chair, and said though he had anticipaterl a different result on the ballot at the East India House 'Anon the question of granting them compensation, their obje(.t now would be to get out, if possible, of the difficulty in Which they were placed. He then read the eight report of the committee, and said he felt confident the excluded office r s would not abandon their claim to compensation, especiall. j . when they knew that there were many Members of the House of Commons who would support them. After some co . .aversation the report was adopted, and resolutions passed to the effect that no efforts should be spared to obtain - •..istice for the excluded officers. That; subscriptions be entered into for that purpose, that the com mittee be entitled to the confidence of the general b0413,', &c. Thanks were returned to the Chairman, and the meeti ng adjourned. An especial Grand Lodge of the Freemasons of England has been convened, for the purpose of conside - eing an address to the Duke of Sussex, in terms of congratulation, on the success of the operation which has recently been per formed on his Royal Highness, and which has been the cause of great satisfaction to all classes of persons throughout the kingdom. In the course of the excavations for re-building Thomond-bridge a six-and-thirty pound ball w dug up this week. doubtless fired during the siege, and doubtless with soreki effect, as there is a large fissure or chasm in the ball. Some days since a curious ink-bottle was found in the same locality, with some peculiar marks attached thereto, indicating its haying been used at the signing of the treaty, after the second siege of Limerick by King William's army.—Limerick C'hronicle. Two persons of the commune of Allemagne, in Calvados, were lately bitten by the same mad dog. One of them had his wound cauterised with aqua fortis, and has not since experienced any inconvenience ; the other placed him self in the hands of an empiric, who muttered over him some cabalistic words, and made him drink a quantity of a liquid. said to possess miraculous powers, but the poor man died after suffering the most horrible paroxysms.—Galignani. FA TAI, ACCIDENT ON THE RIVER.—On Sunday morning, a few minutes after ten o'clock, a young man named. Aldred, the nephew of one of the partners in the firm of Lainson and Aldred, linen drapers, in Rotherhithe, was drowned off East-lane stairs, Bermondsey, by the tremendous swell raised by two steam-vessels going down the river, the City of London, a Ramsgate steamer, and the Water Lily., a Greenwich boat. It appears that Mr. Aldred and a frieu:i, and a boy about eight years of age, had hired a boat of licr a cy and Archer, the boat-builders, in Lambeth, and were rr.,wing down the river, when the two young men stopped to yjpeak to an acquaintance on board the City of Londonderry, a Dublin steam-ship, lying at anchor off East-lane. CP . ..serving; the steamers coming down at a most rapid rate, they laid to alongside a barge until they passed, and directly after they had gone by the deceased got up in the boat to shove her off from the barge, and while doing so a wave, raised by the velo city of the steamers, filled the boat, and the deceased, fearing she was about to sink, made an attempt to cling to the top of the barge, from which he fell and sunk between the barge, and the boat. A number of boats were near the spot, but the river was in such a state of commotion that no one could get near him for some time, and he was drowned. One gentle man, in a boat rowe d by a wa t erman , near l y caug h t b o ld o f his head as h e was s i n ki ng . D rags were i mme di ate l y pro cured and th rown i n t o the w ater, bw., it was upwards of half: hour bef ore the body was f o ur . a . Th e b oat wa s tow e d up to the causeway, with the v-ater in her, and Mr. Aldred's friend a n d the boy narinwiy escaped drowning. Tho ;valor actually washed over. a large galley, containing a river off,ce r , named Lewis, P.".,c1 two others, who were wet through. Tb.r ou out the ivh:ole day, from the frequency and rapidity with which g the stl.!amers passed up and down the river, it presented the. appearance of a rough sea, and few had the courage to venture upon it in boats or skiffs, thus deprivingtha c t om p p o e r l t l io in n g of the public who cannot avail themselves of steam a cco mmodatioi, of proceeding up and down the Pool, and to remain on shore.